Video: Meisterplan for Jira Overview

No time to read? Watch this video to learn the basics of Meisterplan for Jira:

The main screen explained

Importing data from Jira

Linking Meisterplan projects to Jira data

Choosing which Jira fields are used for effort estimates

How Meisterplan for Jira Can Help You

With Meisterplan for Jira, you can finally align strategic overall planning with how agile teams work.

Your benefits:

Gain visibility into work managed in Jira

Create a long-term plan based on strategic initiatives, so that different teams can work towards a common goal

Your teams continue to work how they want - be it agile or waterfall, in MS Project, Trello or Jira, even if you have multiple teams working in multiple instances of Jira.

Always consider the availability and utilization of your employees so that you can make realistic forecasts and make sure nobody is overbooked

Create a common communication foundation, a single source of truth, for management and agile teams

Meisterplan uses your resource management data and effort estimates from Jira to calculate a predicted finish date for each project!

Simulate what-if scenarios - how do changes affect the roadmap, for example, if you're hiring another development team?

How Meisterplan for Jira Works

Connect both tools without creating more work for you or your colleagues.

Jira data is not stored in Meisterplan, so you don't have to maintain data twice

No data is changed in Jira, so you can not accidentally overwrite or unintentionally mess up data

No additional Jira fields or data required - your teams work the same way as always

You can use both cloud and server instances of Jira

For packaging individual Jira work items into strategic Meisterplan projects, use the full flexibility of JQL

The following information from Jira can be viewed in Meisterplan:

Name and key of linked epics

Title, effort estimate and key of linked issues

List of already completed issues (Jira status category "Done")

Technical Requirements

To use all the functions of Meisterplan for Jira, the following requirements must be met:

You need a Jira user account (cloud or server).

Jira issues need an effort estimate so that Meisterplan can correctly calculate a) the predicted finish date of the linked project and b) the number of isses that can be completed within the resource allocation.

Jira Server: Your Jira instance must be accessible from the Internet (HTTPS port 443 or HTTP port 80) (no VPN) for communication with Meisterplan. It is sufficient to only allow access to the instance from the IP addresses used by Meisterplan SaaS systems. You can read more about this in the FAQ Connect to Meisterplan via Static IP.

How to Use Meisterplan for Jira

Learn how to use Meisterplan for Jira step-by-step. We'll let you know whenever it might be useful to ask a Jira expert from your company for help: